WORKERS
Men at Work
With Stefania Demichelis, Valentina Padovan, Paola Medde, Michela Negro, Silvana Trallo
Edited by the Permanent Laboratory of Popular Orality
Enthralling theatrical action on square... bodies of workers in love will modify the space, the surrounding buildings, the city ... they are all copies of a body moving in unison, to create unity, to build together imaginary action, play, outside dances, on streets and squares or in houses...
Old people, in love with carnal love and rejected by a tender love, are involved in a childish love.
They are all copies of a body moving in unison, a scenic car moved by the romantic desire to be fond of each other.
I am a common man, a worker coming out from the machines of modern times and moving in a grotesque way on the street. My scenic body is the only word I have.
They are workers staying in the community marked by the physical dialect, because their speech and their onomatopoeic bluffing are growing with the work of their arm, their sweating skin and their abused tendons, which have their own rhythm, an exhibited musicality and a noisy breathing.
They are workers because they are at the mercy, because the audience is in the scourges of their time, in their breaks and in their sighs.
They are workers because they are doing something and trying desperately to find something or someone, that can fill their heart. An exhibited heart, a neon light on their solitude, flashing their hunger, striking and laughing melancholic kitsch, a broken heart working to finish what was interrupted by Love.
They are people looking for love in all its forms, corporal, earthly, miserable, limited. It is always human love, never vulgar, sometimes ephemeral, sometimes stupid.
From these premises, it has been developing a work on games’ poetry invented by old men. This work creates the context in which the plot takes place in the theatrical mechanism, where it is developed the sudden dialogue of the meeting between the actors’ bodies and the spectators’ bodies, which turns into a match on the roads.
And once touched by their music, you will feel necessarily part of the show, for the sacredness of the space they build.
It will be the need to feel of telling about yourself, as strong as that of eating, sleeping, breathing, evacuating and making love. It will be a not contemplative need, a push outside towards a search, a communication, a staying with someone else.
